Intergenerational transmission of human capital: Is it a one-way street?
Intergenerational transmission of human capital: Is it a one-way street?
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.12.001
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发表时间：
2018-01-01
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3.5
通讯作者：
Majlesi, Kaveh
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作者：
Lundborg, Petter;Majlesi, Kaveh
关于人力资本代际传递的研究通常假设从父母到子女的单向溢出。然而，子女也可能影响父母的人力资本。使用教育的外生变化，产生于瑞典义务教育改革在20世纪50年代和60年代，我们解决这个问题，通过研究孩子的上学对父母的寿命的因果关系。我们首先复制了以前的研究结果，即儿童的教育和父母的寿命之间存在积极而显著的横截面关系。我们的工具变量估计值在统计上与零没有差异。然而，他们隐藏了大量的异质性的性别的孩子和父母;女性教育被发现影响寿命的父亲，特别是那些从低社会经济背景。综上所述，我们的研究结果指出了女儿上学对父母健康的重要性，以及考虑异质影响的重要性。(C)2017爱思唯尔B. V.保留所有权利。
Studies on the intergenerational transmission of human capital usually assume a one-way spillover from parents to children. However, children may also affect their parents' human capital. Using exogenous variation in education, arising from a Swedish compulsory schooling reform in the 1950s and 1960s, we address this question by studying the causal effect of children's schooling on their parents' longevity. We first replicate previous findings of a positive and significant cross-sectional relationship between children's education and their parents' longevity. Our instrumental variables estimates are not statistically different from zero. However, they hide substantial heterogeneity by the gender of the child and the parent; female schooling is found to affect longevity of fathers and especially those from low socioeconomic background. Taken together, our results point to the importance of daughters' schooling for parental health and to the importance of considering heterogeneous impacts. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.